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Kids Euro Festival

Now in its 11th year, Kids Euro Festival is one of the largest performing arts festivals for children in America, bringing Europe's most talented children's entertainers to the DC metro area each fall for two weeks of free performances, concerts, workshops, movies, storytelling, puppetry, dance, magic, and cinema. With programs both for the general public and for school groups, more than 10,000 DC-area children and their families enjoy Kids Euro Festival programs each year.

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Fall Lottery

A Mother's Tear
Presented by: Kids Euro Festival and the Embassy of Bulgaria
A one-person story-telling show of sand art and shadow puppets, designed and performed live in front of audiences with the artist-puppeteer Julia TashevaDate: 10/31/18Time: 10:00Length of Event: 45 MinutesLocation: Sitar Center,1700 Kalorama Rd NWDiscipline: TheatreGrades: KindergartenTicket capacity 75 per date. (Please limit request to approximately 50 students per school, if possible so we can reach as many schools as possible. Smaller groups are easiest to accommodate in our transportation budget.)

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And Then…Presented by: Kids Euro Festival and the Embassy of Sweden
And Then... is a dance and soft circus expressed performance in a polyphonic and imaginary world. Four characters meet to tell and present their story in different ways. Objects roll around, things move and perspectives change through dance, speech and song. Someone talks about dancing bees, another about dexterous opposites and ingeniousness.

And Then... is a suggestive puzzle, a playful treasure hunt and a riddle. Inspired by new research into neurodiversity this is a world where everything is equal in value: the animated room, body and sounds. What is it like to be in a world where we cannot discern any single experiences - where everything is of the same value?

Angelina, a contemporary CinderellaPresented by: Kids Euro Festival and the Embassy of Italy
"If you took away the glass slippers, the pumpkin and the fairy godmother what would be left of the Cinderella story? Quite a bit! - is the answer. You get a prince looking for a princess, a neglected girl, some juicy sibling rivalry and a wise philosopher. There’s also one thing that is mentioned in the fairy tale but made very explicit in the opera. Why is Cinderella able to overcome all the hardships in her path? It’s because of her kindness and decency — which we know from the opera’s full title, La Cenerentola, ossia La Bonta in Trionfo — that is, “ Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant.”
A fun and engaging mix of music and storytelling promoting tolerance, acceptance and respect."

Happiness is a Fox
Presented by: Kids Euro Festival and the Lithuanian Embassy
What makes you happy? This is the question asked by Lithuanian illustrator Aušra Kiudulaite and author Evelina Daciute, the pair behind the book, The Fox on the Swing (https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/the-fox-on-the-swing-hardcover).
In their story you meet Paul, who lives in a cosy treehouse in a big city with his family. Something unexpected happens when Paul befriends a wise, friendly fox on a walk home from the bakery. The fox gives Paul a space to think about what makes him happy and what friendship means – all in the pages of a bright and quirky storybook.
During the workshop the author and the illustrator open up the secrets of their book and talk about what makes them happy. Date: 11/2/2018Time: 10:00AM and 1:00PMLength of Event: 1 hourLocation: Hillwood Estate, 4155 Linnean Ave NWDiscipline: Workshop - WritingCurriculum Connections: (Choose Between: English/Language Arts, Philosophy, Architecture/Urban Studies, Technology, Foreign Language, Media/Film, History & Geography, Civics/Law, Diversity, Math, Science, Environment)Grades: K - 3rd Ticket capacity 20 per trip.

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The Shamer's Daughter
Presented by: Kids Euro Festival and the Embassy of Denmark
The Shamer's daughter, Dina, has unwillingly inherited her mother's supernatural ability. She can look straight into the soul of other people, making them feel ashamed of themselves. When the sole heir to the throne is wrongfully accused of the horrible murders of his family, Dina's mother is lured to Dunark under false pretenses to make him confess. Neglecting to use her ability for the wrong purposes, she is taken prisoner. It is now up to Dina to uncover the truth of the murders, but soon she finds herself whirled into a dangerous power struggle with her own life at risk. In a semi realistic medieval fantasy world with Dragons and Witchcraft, Dina and her family are thrown into the adventure of a lifetime in order to put the rightful heir to the Kingdom of Dunark on the Throne.

United in Music
Presented by: Kids Euro Festival and the Embassy of Latvia
Students and graduates with hearing impairments and hearing students from the Riga Rainis Evening School’s perform concerts, musicals, do activities based on music, do recitations to music, and include elements of drama and pantomime.
Together with their teachers, they create a new form of artistic expression where each musical phrase is followed synchronously by emotional recital to music in sign language, thus setting untraditional interpretations of pieces, performances with spoken and sign languages, although the real interaction takes place through rhythm, dance, movement, music, and jugglery.

WolfPresented by: Kids Euro Festival and the Embassy of Austria
Little Red Riding Hood is to blame … for everything; even though she had been warned … however, let’s start from the beginning. Once upon a time, there was a forest with many trees, countless flowers and even more paths to lose one’s way. There was the girl Little Red Riding Hood, her mother, her grandmother and the wolf. But not many people know that in the forest there also lived an ambitious crow, a know-it-all storyteller, a nearly blind mole and really nice musicians. And all of them were important for the course of the story and how, in the end, Little Red Riding Hood found to her grandma’s house.Date: 11/2/18Time: 10:30Length of Event: 50 minutesLocation: Sitar Center, 1700 Kalorama Rd NWDiscipline: TheatreGrades: 1st - 5th GradeTicket capacity 100 per date. (Please limit request to approximately 50 students per school, if possible so we can reach as many schools as possible. Smaller groups are easiest to accommodate in our transportation budget.)

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Previous Lotteries

A Cat in Paris
Presented by: Kids Euro Festival and the Embassy of France
Dino is a pet cat that leads a double life. By day he lives with Zoe, a little mute girl. But at night he sneaks out the window to work with Nico - a slinky cat burglar with a big heart, whose fluid movements are poetry in motion. The cat's two worlds collide when young Zoe decides to follow Dino on his nocturnal adventures - and falls into the hands of Victor Costa, a blustery gangster planning the theft of a rare statue. Now cat and cat burglar must team up to save Zoe from the bumbling thieves, leading to a thrilling acrobatic finale on top of Notre Dame.

Wow, the sea is made of plastic!
Presented by: Kids Euro Festival and the Embassy of the Netherlands
"When Chloe and Gaia secretly steal a big and beautiful ball from their neighbour, their whole world changes. On a wild sea full of adverture they have to find out how that first so colorful ball could suddenly become so dry and colorless.
Their expedition brings the girls to many different places: from the Arctic to the tropical rainforest, from mister El P Bear to Dopper the dolphin. But time is running out; will they succeed in finding the answer to the question that brought them on this mission?"

TwosomePresented by: Kids Euro Festival and the Embassy of Germany
In the beginning there is a circle and two friends. One plays trumpet, the other tombak. One needs lips and breath to play, the other hands and fingers. Together they move to the left, to the right and straight ahead. Sometimes it's not so easy to play together. And there are different ways to make music together: side by side, together, together and alone - two together. The musicians Johannes Stange (trumpet) and Joss Turnbull (tombak) developed the music for this instrumental theater, a composition and improvisation for trumpet, tombak, hands, feet and truck tarpaulin. Zweieinander is a mobile production that is also played in daycare and other facilities.Date: 10/29/2018Time: 9:30 AM and 11:00 AmLength of Event: 45 minutesLocation: Goethe Institut - 1990 K Street, NW Suite 03, Washington DC 20006Discipline: MusicCurriculum Connections: History & Geography, DiversityGrades: PreK-1stTicket capacity 40 per show Supplementary Materials: http://www.staatstheater-mainz.com/web/veranstaltungen/justmainz-17-18/zweieinander (preview)

Stories from the enchanted island
Presented by: Kids Euro Festival and the Embassy of Ireland
Storyteller Joe Brennan will bring you on a journey across the sea to the magic and wonder of Irelands rich heritage of stories. On this journey the children will meet the Fairy Folk of Ireland, enchanted swans, creatures who can leave the sea and a King with Horses Ears.